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Bill the Lizard
Personal blog · billthelizard.blogspot.comprogrammingwriting
Bill the Lizard's personal blog at billthelizard.blogspot.com covers programming and writing. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Books Programmers Don't Read (2008)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's SICP post on the eight queens problem, solved with a Lisp example. One commenter says the example is elegant.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Books Programmers Don't Read (2008)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-08
What Hacker News says?
I enjoyed this problem a lot when reading SICP book: https://billthelizard.blogspot.com/2011/06/sicp-242-243-n-qu... Lisp'y example is as usual pretty elegant.
Comment linking /2011/06/sicp-242-243-n-queens-problem.html
on “Mathematician answers chess problem about attacking queens”Submitted The SICP Challenge as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Books Programmers Don't Read (2008) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Books Programmers Don't Really Read (2008) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion